The good folks over at Grammarly spent hours upon hours scouring official websites and top sports blogs/sites for NBA, MLB, and NFL teams, proofreading the top five comments on select stories across the web. Docking fans for "black-and-white mistakes such as misspellings, wrong and missing punctuation, misused or missing words, and subject-verb disagreement," Grammarly's researchers put together a scoring system that averages out the amount of mistakes fans made per 100 words.
This next group of teams are the worst of a Major League Baseball fan pool that finished second among North America's three major professional sports leagues with 7.90 mistakes per 100 words (NBA, 4.55 & NFL, 7.97. Here's our list of the 6 MLB Fan Bases With The Worst Spelling And Grammar
(Mistakes per 100 words listed next to team name)
6. Detroit Tigers 11.7
Something's wrong here. Detroit Lions fans are the epitome of grammar nerds, placing #1 on Grammarly's list for the best spellers/grammarians in the NFL. Help out your Tigers brethren, Lions fans!
5. New York Yankees 12.1
Take heart, Yankees fans. You're REALLY going to love #1 on this list. Plus, CC Sabathia and Masahiro Tanaka are pretty easy names to trip up on.
4. Kansas City Royals 12.40
Royals fans are way too busy partying it up after the team's first World Series win in three decades. We're sure that's led to a few missed English classes around the area over the past couple of months.
3. Houston Astros 12.70
Astros fans are more of the artistic type. How else can you explain that really WEIRD ramp out in center field at Minute Maid Park. Out-of-the-box thinkers. (Sad side note: Tal's Hill is going byebye, effective in 2016.
2. Philadelphia Phillies 13.5
That's the problem when you replace every "f" at the front of a word with "ph." We're looking at you, Phillie Phanatic.
1. New York Mets 13.9
Your are the Yankees' little brothers NO MORE, Mets fans! Tho, we're sure your speling and grammer isn't dat not good.
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